# A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

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- Authors: [Daniel Defoe](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-defoe)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-066-0
- Pages: 736
- Published: 2005-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.